Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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CLASS SONG. -rf The time has come, we soon must part, Our High School course is nearly rung And parting pangs assail the heart, To think our school life here is done, Although we now must say farewell, To all our friends and schoolmates dear, In mem'ry there will ever dwell, Fond pictures of our school life here. CHORUS- Oh, Alma Mater, far from thee, In after years tho' we may roam, Remembered then wilt ever be, Our dear old Rockford High School home Four busy years have passed away, Since first we gathered in these halls, Welve struggled upward day by day, To scale the heights of learning's walls, Those happy hours in friendship true, We've spent together rain or shine, And now farewell we say to you, As the Class of 1899. CHORUS-

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18 THE ANNUAL. exceptional class. Aided by Herr Stedinger, we overcame the obsta- cles in the way of the German student until We translated as fluently as a native. The third year passed leaving us Seniors, with the Owl, the Annual, and the Literary Society on our hands. We were always noted for our originality, consequently not wishing to conduct these institutions in the same manner as they had been before us, we changed the management of the school paper admitting the other classes into its control, edited a strictly up-to-date Annual, ande- dropped the Literary Society-for a change. Our Senior year is nearly over now, our High School lesson almost said, we advance now to the higher education, with the hope that your years within these walls may be as enjoyable and profitable as we have experienced, and that you may remember the Class of 799 as loyal pupils of tl1e R. H. S. M. n. 'oo

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CoMMENc1iMliNT l3RoGRAM. 4. Invocation. Music, Recessional. Orution, Kipling, the True Poet l42ll1l'C21tC of England, - lV1Am+:I, S. BU1aN1f:'1 1' Reading, 'tRikki-Lil-:ki-Lzlvill' - NINA RlCYNOI,lJ5 Violin Solo, - - - jicsslrt DOIRSUN Oration, The Army Correspondent, - NELSON I-IUPKINS Recitation, t'With Scindia to Delhi. - MAIQCIA VANDIIZICR Music. Comedy, With Any AIl121ZC1116Ut,,l - VIOLET B. JOHNSON, HOLLAND CHURCH, JOHN S1N1nr:RsoN, AL1sER'r JOHNSON Presentation of School Banner, - - EDWIN C. BRIGGS Award of Diplomas. Class Song.